spleá

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish spled (“sport, play; boasting, exaggeration; flattery”), from Old English pleġa (“exercise”).

Noun

spleá f (genitive singular spleá)

  1. dependence, subservience
  2. obsequiousness, flattery

Declension

Declension of spleá (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative spleá
vocative a spleá
genitive spleá
dative spleá
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an spleá
genitive na spleá
dative leis an spleá
don spleá

Derived terms

  • spleách (“dependent, subservient; obsequious; sly”)
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